India, Nov. 8 -- As deliberations on safe harbour begin in Delhi, the harder question is not whether algorithms change what a platform is, but whether the law can describe that change precisely enough to hold.

On Wednesday, the Indian Express reported that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has begun early-stage discussions on confining the safe harbour in Section 79 of the IT Act to services that only carry information, internet and telecom service providers and peer-to-peer messaging, rather than social media companies whose systems decide what users see. The same deliberations reportedly cover advance notice to authorities before major product changes that affect user safety, and complaint mechanisms for deepfakes ...